ANSWERS TO QUIZ ON THE FUTURE YOU

Excerpt from Ada Brownell's  book, IMAGINE THE FUTURE YOU.



Quiz Answers:

Chapter One:

1.     Answer the question truthfully and meditate on why you do or don’t think of the future.

2.     Allow yourself to dream great dreams while you ponder this question.

3.     Keep this list of dreams in your diary or your Bible where you can look at it occasionally.

4.     Write down your ideas.

5.     Both are important, but people with great talent who don’t dream or desire to polish and use what they have often have less success than those without much talent.

6.     Fulfilling dreams usually has little to do with luck, but it doesn’t hurt to know people who can help you succeed.

7.     Our decisions affect our future because we can’t achieve anything without working toward a goal.

8.     Yes. Because they once they become a part of us they’ll probably be with us all our lives.

9.     Because they assist us in reaching goals. Even though being on time at school doesn’t seem like a big deal, an “on-time” habit will help in everything we do.

10.  Poor people from dysfunctional homes achieved great things all through history.

Chapter Two answers

1. He was a little cocky, but no one deserves to be sold into slavery. His brothers’ jealousy consumed them.

2. Good character almost always shines through, although torture and being a prisoner sometimes causes a person to resort to bitterness and maybe even violence. Good character will show in our attitudes and actions.

3. Joseph said later God had a purpose. God used Joseph to save many people from starvation. God probably left him there because it humbled him. The cocky kid disappeared and emerged a strong man whose witness eventually went all over the prison and all over Egypt.

4. Joseph desired to find God’s grace and serve Him, which Joseph did (Genesis 39:4).

5. We probably should remember he forgave his brothers.

6. The Book of Life, and our name is written there when we repent of our sins and accept Jesus as our Savior.

7. Who we are doesn’t depend on the meaning of our name. Who we are depends on our own will.

8. Not necessarily.

9. We don’t need to accept criticism or privileges because of our family name.

10. Do my best to show people I no longer practice sinful habits or unacceptable activities, and be patient while they discover who I really am.

Chapter Three answers

1. Be thoughtful and truthful with your answer.
2. A respectful, loving attitude that shows on our face and in the way we dress.
3. How you look shows whether you respect yourself, and it could go beyond that to showing how you respect your school, others, your family, and even God. If you look your best without dressing seductively, it shows you respect yourself, and modesty shows you respect others.
4. Search your heart. Do you want to be respected or eyed by slime?
5. If your answer is no, start paying attention. Glance in a full-length mirror and assess how you look. Look at yourself in the mirror. Inspect recent photos of you.
6. When you’ve decided on your best features, write down your choices and use those in the way you apply makeup and how you dress.
7. If you haven’t been paying attention, you should be.
8. Make a list of people you admire and then state why you think they’re special. If they are super skinny and you suspect they might be anorexic or bulimic, look up anorexia and bulimia on the Internet. These conditions not only harm your health and can kill; they sometimes blossom into a serious mental illness. By the same token, does the reason you admire them make sense for wanting to be like them?
9. Because good looks last only until we age, become ill, can’t afford good clothes or makeup, get flabby, or gain weight. Godly character lasts through life, through hard times, and for eternity. It’s who we are that counts, not how we look.
10. Opinion leaders don’t follow the crowd. You’re not afraid of being different, or following your own dreams, standing out from the crowd, and becoming a strong person others can trust and should admire.

Chapter Four answers

1. Just calculate that.
2. React.
3. Distressing circumstances; more powerful.
4. Will.
5. Go in faith through doors God opens, but be sure to stay close enough to God to know if He opened the way.
6. Now.
7. God.
8. Accept Jesus as Savior and make Him Lord of your life; observe what people do in different careers, and talk with people who do the work you would like to do.
9. Joseph.

10. He probably would have died young or at least never found favor as a slave.

Chapter Five Answers

1. Imitate.
2. From experience or other people.
3. It changes us and our character.
4. By consciously controlling our thoughts, filtering out ungodliness, avoiding filthy movies and television, being content, listening to good music, reading good clean stories, studying God’s Word, and picking up wisdom from wise people around us.
5. Our conscience.
6. No. Because we can ignore our conscience.
7. By not going into Satan’s territory, giving him our minds, and resisting and rebuking him.
8. God’s Word, good books, good music, a will to work, a will to do our best, and a decision to live for God no matter what the circumstances or what other people do.
9. Ask God for protection of our minds or to intervene. We can ask teachers for substitute books. Above all, resist brainwashing.
10. Because truth pays off. All propagandists have to do to change people’s attitudes is twist the truth or “spin” it into a lie, or give people what they want to hear instead of the whole truth.

Chapter Six answers

1. Yes. Perhaps because David probably would have sought the Lord first, but we’ll never know. David made a huge mistake himself when he committed adultery with Bathsheba. Nevertheless, God can see into the future and would have helped Solomon if he’d asked.
2. Only you can answer that.
3. God provided miracles, by first giving the servant wisdom, by moving on Rebecca’s heart, and by helping Isaac respond to her.  Be truthful in your opinion of what happened.
4. The will.
5. Love; the same way.
6. We want others to love us as God loves us.
7. Because of nearness in time and space (propinquity); We desire someone; Our instincts tell us to create a family; To build our ego; Because we decide to fall in love; No one better is available; We have similar interests; Because of loneliness; Because someone else encouraged us to date this person; Because it’s God’s plan.
8. You have the answers.
9. 1 Corinthians 13
10. The will.

Chapter Seven answers

1. To prevent STDs; to prevent pregnancy; to present yourself as a virgin to your spouse at the marriage altar; to enhance your marriage, especially with trust and respect; to keep healthy emotionally; to stay free from sexual sin.
2. True.
3. Poverty.
4. They have goals in life.
5. To please God.
6. Adultery.
7. Friends.
8. Liar. Truth.
9. Just give your opinion.
10. Our will.

Chapter Eight answers

1. No. Because faith is necessary for salvation (Romans 10:9, John 3:16).

2. Revelatory days of creation; Age-long days of creation; Twenty-four-hour days of creation: twenty-four-hour days of re-creation.

3. The Piltdown Man.

4. He wrote the book in 1859.

5. No. Because it’s still a dog, a fish, a fruit fly, a bird, or whatever it was before there were mutations or genetic changes.

6. Faith. Because no one can prove how or why we got here, and the perfection of creation cries out for a Designer.

7. To make evolution appear plausible, because in a normal man’s life span no significant changes can be seen in any species that say they are changing into another.

8. The exponential J curve.

9. The first and second laws of thermodynamics. The first is that matter cannot be created; the second is that matter continuously degrades and becomes less organized. The universe is slowing down and dying, and everything on Earth eventually falls apart or decays.

10. The seeing eye; hearing ear; the brain and neurological system; the digestive system; reproduction and cardiovascular systems; and on and on and on.

Chapter Nine answers         

1. The only begotten Son of God (John 3:16).

2. John chapter 1 says Jesus (the light of the world) was there at creation. Jesus said He existed before Abraham (John 8:58.).

3. Yes. The Bible says no other god or person can provide Salvation (Acts 4:12).

4. He was wounded for our sins (Isaiah 53:5) is one, but there are more, even in that chapter.

5. Jesus claimed to be God when he told the Jews that if they kept His sayings, they would not see death (John 3:51-58), and other times referenced in the Bible.

6. He accepted worship and forgave sins.

7. Because if Jesus were just a “good” man, he lied, because He claimed to be God. Either Jesus is who He said He was or He is a wicked imposter.

8. Forgiveness of sin; a sacrifice for all humankind’s sin.

9. Because He lives, we shall live also.

10. Like a thief in the night, unexpectedly (See Matthew 24, 25). He told us to watch (be ready) because we won’t know the day or hour (Matthew 25:13).

Chapter Ten Answers

1. Blood.

2. Believe, repent of sin and accept Jesus Christ as Savior.

3. Born again.

4. God forgets it (Micah 7:18–19).

5. No, but God take away guilt and give us peace about it.

6. By studying the Bible and keeping our conscience soft and receptive to the Holy Spirit.

7. Yes, but only by accepting Jesus Christ as Savior and turning from false doctrine, scripture outside of the Bible, and worshipping men or other gods as their savior.

8. Giving every part of you to the Lord, seeking His will, and following God and His Word.

9. No.

10. No. It is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27).

Chapter Eleven answers    

1. Holy men of God inspired by the Holy Ghost.

2. Joseph Smith; Mohammad wrote most of the Koran.

3. Because it shows testimonials that what was said was true, especially since forty authors agree on hundreds of controversial subjects.

4. No, yet the whole book is filled with prophecies and fulfillment of the Messiah, and the New Testament is written by witnesses who saw how God completed His plan of salvation for man. Much of the New Testament contains quotes of the teachings of Jesus, however. (See 2 Peter 1:16 and 1 John 1: 1).

5. The Bible.

6. Peter and John.  (See 2 Peter 1:16 and 1 John 1: 1).

7. Yes. The Pool of Siloam, King David’s Palace, and many more,

8. By scribes, who spent their lives copying scripture and being sure it was accurate, and making sure the scrolls would not disintegrate.

9. You probably can’t prove it to someone else, but use the Word in faith, and you can prove it to yourself.

10. Yes. But most denominations believe this is true of the original manuscripts, not necessarily every translation, although most translations can be trusted.

Chapter Twelve answers

1. Because a Christian needs to talk to God, and God loves to communicate with us.

2. Probably not. It would be like being married and never talking to your spouse.

3. The Bible says it will be. Hundreds of promises are contained in the Bible.

4. Just by talking to God as you would someone else, but being sure you are reverent, and begin by thanking Him for your blessings and what He has done.

5. Yes, but sometimes God says no.

6. Because it’s OK to get your emotions involved. Sometimes a person has great need, is sorry for sin, or weeps because joy has come in.

7. Yes, if you are conscious of what you are saying, mean what you say, and have faith God will answer.

8. To increase faith but also to assure God we believe what He has said.

9. Because he told us to “ask.”

10. Everything. That’s what helps our prayers reach heaven.

Chapter Thirteen answers

1.     To steal, kill, and destroy.

2.     Snare.

3.     A roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

4.     Be sober and on our guard.

5.     What people do every day.

6.     Steals talent, destroys character, and eventually kills.

7.     Diamond; polishing.

8.     Only you know.

9.     Make a plan.

10.  If I assume responsibility for preparing for the future, and trust God to open doors and lead.